The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ELLIPTIC AURORA SEEN 21ST MARCH, lt)79, AT f; AURORA SEEN MARCH, 1879, AT 3 428 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. years of which we knew beforehand that it would be a mini-mum aurora year. It was just this circumstance, however,which permitted me to study, in a region admirably suited forthe purpose, a portion of this natural phenomenon under un-commonly favourable circumstances. For the luminous arcs,which even in Scandinavia generall
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ELLIPTIC AURORA SEEN 21ST MARCH, lt)79, AT f; AURORA SEEN MARCH, 1879, AT 3 428 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. years of which we knew beforehand that it would be a mini-mum aurora year. It was just this circumstance, however,which permitted me to study, in a region admirably suited forthe purpose, a portion of this natural phenomenon under un-commonly favourable circumstances. For the luminous arcs,which even in Scandinavia generally form starting-points for theradiant auroras, have here exhibited themselves undimmed bythe more splendid forms of the aurora. I have thus, undisturbedby subsidiary phenomena, been able to devote myself to thecollection of contributions towards the ascertaining of the posi-tion of these luminous arcs, and I believe that I have in thisway come to some very remarkable conclusions, which have beendeveloped in detail in a separate paper printed in The Scien-tific Work of the Vega Expedition (Part I. p. 400), Herespace permits me only to make the following statement. The appearance o
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